By Michel Rose, Charlotte Van Campenhout and Marc Leras PARIS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - France's intelligence agencies briefed a government crisis meeting on Thursday that a wave of student protests, sometimes violent,

Student protestors in France are demanding better conditions for overcrowded and underfunded schools. French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron is calling for calm amid reports of violence. CBS News' Leigh Kiniry has more details.

About 900 demonstrations, blockades and related incidents under way outside high schools around the country

The French government on Thursday put forward a 2027 budget with €43bn in cuts and tax rises, as it seeks to quell market jitters that have pushed the country’s borrowing costs to their highest level in almost 25 years.

F RANCE’S MESSY politics are spooking the bond markets. On September 29th the yield on ten-year bonds rose to 4.8%, its highest level since 2008. The surge in borrowing costs pu

In a four-day visit, Pope Leo XIV won praise across the political spectrum, even from its most avowedly secular figures.

The Vatican estimated that 700,000 people came out for the Mass — more than the 600,000 who had registered in advance. The stunning turnout testified to the church's enduring influence in France, despite sharp declines in churchgoing in recent decades and secularizing trends that have emptied churches around Europe.

Under the plan, migrants who crossed the English Channel into the U.K. could be returned to France in exchange for an equivalent number of legal asylum seekers.

Some 1,500 people have been removed to France since the scheme began just over a year ago.

France has erupted in chaos as masked rioters torched schools, beat up teachers, doused them in petrol, and fought police.